Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer

Re:Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer by Karunamon on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:24AM (#15970943)

I think people are okay with some token amount of work to check that they're not a bot, but Google is changing that into a token amount of work to help train their systems.

I don't agree with it, but I understand it, especially if you have bad feelings about google.

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Re:Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer by Sir_Cmpwn on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:37AM (#15971086)

I think people have forgotten that recaptcha was originally designed to help Google transcribe books for their digital library, which is arguably a public good. Now they're training their self-driving cars with it, which really just benefits them.

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Re:Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer by calcifer on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:33PM (#15971722)

> help Google transcribe books for their digital library, which is arguably a public good

If they were doing it for a public library or releasing the text as public domain, that would be a public good. As it stands, it's just doing free work for an advertising company.

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Re:Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer by gue5t on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:13PM (#15971508)

Google Books is not public: https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-ever-happen...

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Re:Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer by Sir_Cmpwn on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:47PM (#15971888)

Yeah it didn't work out because publishers fought it tooth and nail in copyright court. But that was the original intention.

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Re:Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer by djsumdog on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @01:18PM (#15972226)

Wasn't that before Google bought it and it was owned by a University?

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